PS4 vs PS3 in Japan – VGChartz Gap Charts – November 2017 Update

November 2017 is the 46th month of the PlayStation 4 being on sale in Japan. The gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 4 by 224 units in the last month and in favor of the PlayStation 3 by 244,384 units in the last 12 months. The PlayStation 4 currently leads by just 6,692 units.

The PlayStation 3 launched in November 2006, while the PlayStation 4 launched in February 2014. The PlayStation 4 has sold 5.56 million units, while its predecessor the PlayStation 3 sold 5.55 million units.

Of course it’ll help but you’re still missing the point. Even with something as huge as DQXI, the biggest game PS4 will ever have in the region, PS4 still isn’t dramatically ahead of PS3 in the same timeframe.

Even when MHW releases it’ll raise sales but it won’t dramatically propel PS4 ahead of PS3 in the long term.

The things is what else can they do at this point. As you've said they've had the biggest JP franchises available to them launch on their console.

JP is primarily a mobile market, and specifically a Nintendo mobile market when it comes to the big 3. What else is there that Sony could do for their console when the JP community only care about portability? What can MS do? What could Nintendo do with their home consoles?

If it's not portable or dirt cheap at launch it's going to struggle to break 10m in JP going forward.